Egypt: ECHO Factsheet – Egypt – October 2018

Source: European Commission s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Country: Egypt, Syrian Arab Republic, World
Introduction
Egypt is a destination country along the central Mediterranean refugee route with people arriving from both the Middle East and east Africa. A growing population of concern is stranded in the most overcrowded and poorest neighbourhoods of its largest cities such as Cairo and Alexandria as a result of an upward trend of new arrivals an